2011 Vuelta a Espana Stage 3: Petrer - Totana, 164km

[LukeSchmid]

Added some names, surely more than 9 big names..

Oops missed Scarponi, bit silly.

 

[just some guy]

Of the big names for overall we have,
Nibali
van den Broek +14s
Rodriguez +21
Anton +24
Brajkovic +25
Wiggins +38
Sastre +59
Kruiswijk +1.49
Menchov +2.02

Scarponi ?

 

[LaFleur]

Where are you guys seeing the expanded standings for the stage?

http://www.lavuelta.com/11/en/resultados/index.html?e=3

Guess you meant this one.

 

[Winterfold]

Looks like it might be one of those GTs for Menchov then

 

[LandEscape]

Did Capecchi made a really strong pace? I can't see no reason in pushing in front, with no significant threats for gc ahead or stage winning chances with sagan...

 

[Mellow Velo]

Scarponi ?

Michele +2'27"

 

[roundabout]

Yes. In his good GT-bad GT pattern 7th or 8th (whatever it was in the Giro) is now a good GT.

 

[just some guy]

I'm getting really upset at Menchov today.

The Pope is no longer as I said in the opening discussions a conclave will elect a new one soon.

 

[royalpig180]

http://www.lavuelta.com/11/en/resultados/index.html?e=3

Guess you meant this one.

Haha yeah thanks... I'm stupid.

 

[jens_attacks]

incredible what a fail today by my favourite teams,geox and astana.what the fucc happened?kash out,kiser out,menchov,sastre out,duarte out.they didn't even chase...might be the site???i guess not cause i've really seen two big groups.
this vuelta is already stupid but hey cobo is still there at least

 

[theyoungest]

TGBM looking very good (to the extent that someone with such an awful style can look good). I said it before: he could be a good Vuelta rider. He likes Spain, that's a start.

Kruijswijk not great, but if his two Giros are any indication it's all upwards from here. What I don't understand is that Rabo seemed to drive the front group when one of their GC riders fell behind.

 

[LaFleur]

So Menchov to pull a Schleck tomorrow and attack on the first mountain? (Or Contador.)

 

[LaFleur]

incredible what a fail today by my favourite teams,geox and astana.what the fucc happened?kash out,kiser out,menchov,sastre out,duarte out.they didn't even chase...might be the site???i guess not cause i've really seen two big groups.
this vuelta is already stupid but hey cobo is still there at least

Sastre was in the 1st chase group.

 

[LandEscape]

Did Capecchi made a really strong pace? I can't see no reason in pushing in front, with no significant threats for gc ahead or stage winning chances with sagan...

I guess the answer is Menchov

 

[icefire]

incredible what a fail today by my favourite teams,geox and astana.what the fucc happened?kash out,kiser out,menchov,sastre out,duarte out.they didn't even chase...might be the site???i guess not cause i've really seen two big groups.
this vuelta is already stupid but hey cobo is still there at least

Sastre is not out. He missed the split yesterday out of bad positioning. He was today in the front group. I'm more worried about Antón. He didn't look at ease in the last climb today.

 

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

TGBM looking very good (to the extent that someone with such an awful style can look good). I said it before: he could be a good Vuelta rider. He likes Spain, that's a start.

Kruijswijk not great, but if his two Giros are any indication it's all upwards from here. What I don't understand is that Rabo seemed to drive the front group when one of their GC riders fell behind.

How did Menchov get on?

 

[LaFleur]

Sastre is not out. He missed the split yesterday out of bad positioning. He was today in the front group. I'm more worried about Antón. He didn't look at ease in the last climb today.

Sastre said in his twitter, that he missed it because of bad form (or he is in bad form, don't remember exactly.) So he surely can't be very good...

 

[jens_attacks]

Sastre is not out. He missed the split yesterday out of bad positioning. He was today in the front group. I'm more worried about Antón. He didn't look at ease in the last climb today.

man sastre is out since a long time,he is not motivated any more sorry i love carlito and he was the definition of professional athlete but now sometimes i feel he had enough of suffering on the bike.of course that's also the case with menchov.i don't blame them i understand them,it must be a hell pushing your limits for at least 14 years on the bike.

geox will go just with cobo.
i think looking how strong he was today,wiggins is a very big threat,look at the way he breathes.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

V.Nibali +1'59"
J.Van Den Broeck +2'10"
J.Rodriguez +2'20"
I.Anton +2'23"
M.Scarponi +2'27"
B.Wiggins +2'37"
D.Menchov +4'01"

K.Sivtsov +2'04"
D.Martin +2'20"
J.Brajkovic +2'24"
B.Mollema +2'25"
R.Taaramae +2'28"
C.Sastre +2'58"
S.Kruijswijk +3'48"
F.Duarte +4'01"

Kloden??

fixed your post

 

[theyoungest]

How did Menchov get on?

This doesn't happen to Menchov if he's on race winning form. But I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings.

 

[ingsve]

And why is that? Kessiakoff is probably just a notch better than Kangert, but Kangert is in top form right now.

Ok, might be overrating him alot, but still I think he has a good shot at atleast top 30. Kangert needs like 3-4 years to be a top 10 in grand tours, the 1-1,5 years out of injury and his bad knees really need time.

Well, top 30 might be possible in this race if he holds on and doesn't just settle into grupettos if he gets dropped. Astana has mentioned that they want to keep riders high on stages to have a shot at the team classification as well so there's a good chance he'll do just that. Also the Vuelta is a race where more riders tend to take it easy rather than to push themselves to keep up so there are usually bigger gaps in GC which means that the ones that do try to stay high on GC have a better shot than at say the Tour.

Still, I doubt they would make him the leader. Going into the Vuelta they said that Kashechkin was the leader and Kessiakoff and Kiserlovski were the backup leaders.

 

[Anonymous]

This doesn't happen to Menchov if he's on race winning form. But I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings.

The pope is an enigma wrapped in a mystery.

 

[Mellow Velo]

Taaramae appears to have gone AWOL, as well.
Still waiting on spots >106.....

 

[jens_attacks]

yes indeed what an epic fail by kash and astana....just incredible,i die of knowing what the hell happened and i want to hear also what matxin will say

 

[roundabout]

Things can change tomorrow in the leader/not leader stakes so it's best to wait and see. It's quite possible that a lot of GC people will have bad days.